Reasons for the American Revolution

Soon after England established the colonies in the New World, it began a period of salutary neglect. The English rarely intervened with colonial business. It was during this time that the colonies gradually began to think and act independently of England. Any loyalty that the English had built with the colonists during the victory over the French in the Seven Year's War was soon dismantled by their actions. During this war England had established a huge national debt. …